Cloud Computing: Box to offer usage-based pricing, file conversion service

Grazed from Stephen Lawson.

As it heads toward an estimated $250 million initial public offering, cloud storage and collaboration provider Box is thinking outside, well, itself. The nine-year-old company introduced an alternative to its traditional per-user pricing on Wednesday, as well as its first service that doesn’t rely on customers storing their data with Box.

Box has built its business on giving enterprises a place to store files for easy access and sharing by employees, partners and customers. It claims 25 million users. They can tap into the platform through Box’s own software or integrate it with desktop and mobile applications using APIs (application programming interfaces)…

There are more than 35,000 developers building services on the Box platform, the company says. The growth of cloud-fed mobile computing is a big part of the promise for Box’s future, co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie said in a keynote address at the company’s developer conference in San Francisco…

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